The Personalised Online Calorie Calculator: How Many Calories Do YOU Need Each Day?

A new calorie calculator that tells you exactly how many calories you should be cutting out to reach your goal weight has just launched online. Find out everything you need to know about the Body Weight Planner...

Calorie counting is one of the oldest weight loss tricks in the book, but has taken a bit of a back seat in recent times, thanks to more fashionable diets such as the 5:2, the Paleo and the Clean and Lean diet. But it's a simple theory: If you eat less and do more, you will lose weight. Of course, this is easier said than done, when there's so much temptation out there. But a new calorie calculator has just launched online, called the Body Weight Planner that shows exactly how many calories a person needs to eat to reach their goal weight.

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The planner takes in several factors including height, gender and how much exercise you do. It then calculates how many calories you need to maintain your weight and then how many calories you need to reach your goal weight; factoring in how much exercise you plan to do and how long you have to lose the weight. The planner also tells you how many calories to eat each day after reaching your target, to help you maintain your new size.

Originally created by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as a research tool, the planner proved so popular with people wanting to use it for their own weight management, the NIH adapted the tool to feature more information about how to achieve a healthy lifestyle.

And with the NIH's most recent research revealing that we don't all lose the same amount of weight by cutting the same amount of calories, this new personalised weight loss tool couldn't come at a better time…

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